Thales to buy Alcatel satellite unit
Posted: Wed, Apr 5 8:05 PM ET (0005 GMT)
French defense electronics company Thales has agreed to purchase the satellite manufacturing division of Alcatel, the two companies announced Wednesday. Thales will spend €1.74...

Former Microsoft exec signs up for ISS flight
Posted: Mon, Apr 3 7:34 PM ET (2334 GMT)
A former Microsoft software developer who led the development of some of that company's biggest programs has signed a deal to fly to the...

Alcatel-Lucent merger raises questions about satellite unit
Posted: Mon, Apr 3 2:06 PM ET (1806 GMT)
A merger announced Sunday between telecom equipment manufacturers Alcatel and Lucent has left unresolved for now the fate of Alcatel's satellite manufacturing division, which...

Soyuz docks with ISS
Posted: Sat, Apr 1 8:53 AM ET (1353 GMT)
A Soyuz spacecraft carrying a relief crew and the first Brazilian cosmonaut docked with the International Space Station late Friday night. The Soyuz TMA-8...

Russian communications satellite disabled
Posted: Fri, Mar 31 2:02 PM ET (1902 GMT)
A Russian communications satellite mysteriously malfunctioned earlier this week, leading some to suggest that the spacecraft was struck by a micrometeoroid or a piece of...

United Launch Alliance nears approval
Posted: Thu, Mar 30 2:03 PM ET (1903 GMT)
The federal government is expected to give its final approval to a joint venture that mergers the noncommercial launch operations of Boeing and Lockheed Martin,...

Soyuz launched to ISS
Posted: Thu, Mar 30 8:49 AM ET (1349 GMT)
A Soyuz spacecraft carrying the next crew for the International Space Station as well as the first Brazilian astronaut lifted off Wednesday evening. A Soyuz...

NASA restores Dawn mission
Posted: Tue, Mar 28 8:33 AM ET (1333 GMT)
NASA has reversed its earlier cancellation of the Dawn mission to two main belt asteroids, citing renewed confidence in the project's ability to overcome...

Hayabusa finds asteroid is a young object
Posted: Mon, Mar 27 7:55 AM ET (1255 GMT)
Data collected by Hayabusa, a Japanese asteroid mission, has found that the asteroid the spacecraft visited may have formed just 10 million years ago as...

Shuttle foam loss, range safety questioned
Posted: Mon, Mar 27 7:42 AM ET (1242 GMT)
The shuttle Discovery lost more foam on its launch last July than on previous missions, according to one report, while a separate report uncovered a...